Welcome to Wonderful Wednesday

Get involved and develop your data visualisation knowledge & skills.

Here's how it works:

  • Each month a new challenge will be provided, including access to the relevant dataset.
  • Download the data, and develop your own data visualisations.
  • Develop your graphics and code (using any programming language or tool) and submit your entry.
  • Attend the monthly webinar, to hear your submission discussed by our expert panel. Alternatively, please feel free to simply attend the webinars, view the submitted graphics and listen to the panel discussion.

We welcome suggestions for new challenges! Please feel free to submit your idea here.

Current Challenge: US Disease Incidence

This month’s challenge is about a publicly available US disease incidence data set with yearly records covering period 1928 to 2000.

The challenge is to produce a data visualisation that shows patterns in incidence for each disease area.

Process & timeline:

Dataset: US Disease IncidenceIntroduction of the challenge: Webinar 39 from May 10th (available on VoD)
Submission: Click here to submitDeadline: July 5th
Next webinar: Click here to register Date: July 12th

* NOTE to download a single data set as a csv file, click on the raw button and save the file. The following link describes the process in further detail

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Blog

Details of previous Wonderful Wednesdays can be found on our blog site. Each blog entry includes:
• Submitted visualisations
• A summary of the panel discussion
• Submitted code

 

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Upcoming Events

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesday Webinar Series (2023)

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

PSI Career Young Virtual Meet (Q2 2023)

An informal event starting with a short talk and then going into breakout rooms to connect with others from the industry. Aimed at those who have recently joined the industry looking to expand their network.

PSI Journal Club: Propensity Scores

Learn more about the different techniques and applications propensity scores and the advantages and disadvantages of different methods.

PSI Pre-Clinical SIG Webinar: An investigation to improve nonlinear mixed-effects approach for EC50 estimation based on multi-donor dose-response data

Drs Qiu and Wenren will present their investigations on EC50 estimation based on multi-donor dose-response data via different approaches.

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